Wednesday, March 29, 2006

NASA: Dawn revived, CEV contract delayed

NASA has made two major decisions this week. The Dawn mission to study two of the largest asteroids has been revived after an earlier cancellation. After the scientific world complained loudly following NASA's cancellation of the mission for technical and fiscal reasons, NASA rexamined it and found the technical issues were close enough to solution that the mission should be completed. Dawn will launch in summer 2007.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19372


Also, NASA delayed awarding the next stage contracts for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), extending the Phase 1 study contracts to Lockheed Martin and the Boeing/Northrop team from March 31 to August 31. One of the Phase 1 contractors will be selected as the Phase 2 prime contractor to design, develop, test, evaluate and produce the CEV.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19373

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